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A comic, dark and dyspeptic novel about an obsessive love gone sour. Jealousy and revenge, passion and dread intertwine in one man's soul as he is trapped in the awful claustrophobia of a three-day coach journey across Europe with a group of people he loathes - and the woman who broke his heart.
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About the book
- Author
- Tim Parks
- First published
- 1997
- Pages
- 261
- Publisher
- Secker & Warburg, Christian Bourgois, Goldmann
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English, German
- ISBN
- 9781559704441
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